Jeff Guo
Stories
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'Catastrophe bonds' are gaining popularity as a response to climate change
After the hurricane in Jamaica, the government had a pot of money to help rebuild. A Catastrophe Bonds payout. We explain how it works and why Cat Bond popularity is on the rise as a response to climate change.
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'Planet Money': The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made
We get a rare up close look inside the Dutch company ASML, and its technology behind the most advanced microchips.
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NPR staffers share their non-fiction picks from Books We Love
NPR staffers recommend non-fiction reads from our Books We Love list: "On Minimalism," "Anansi's Gold," "Asian-Americans in an Anti-Black World," and "The Wager."
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Voicing concerns: The future of AI voice replacement
AI can now be trained to realistically imitate the voices of celebrities. The Planet Money podcast explore this new world of synthetic voices.
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A cat lover tried to leave a fortune to her town's strays. It almost didn't work out
When Barbara Thorpe died in 2002, she left almost all of her money — $200,000 — to benefit the cats of her hometown, Dixfield, Maine. But that decision turned into a huge legal battle.